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Thursday, 31 August 2017

IF ONLY

My
friend jenny got a job and o boy was I envious of the job am sure you know the
type I am referring to, the type that comes with an apartment in Victoria
island, as in serviced apartment with a pool and gym, plus a car with a driver,
abeg, who doesn’t dream of that type of job? I forgot to add, she also gets
paid in US dollars. She was living the good life. In fact, once it's the
weekend, we are all jet to her place to have some fun and relax. But as the
saying goes, onto whom much is given, much is expected. She had to work her ass
off to keep at her job and there is always someone in her office that wants
that position.

So
this faithful day her supervisors came from the United States, they expected a
presentation on how she intends to project the company forward. She had
sleepless nights on studying, researching and eventually came up with two
proposals which contradicted each other. She had to go with one and she,
unfortunately, went with the one the supervisors weren’t too pleased with, which
regrettable cost her the job she was so much in love with. Days later, as she
was clearing out her office, one of her supervisors picked up the other
proposal and told her that if only
she had presented it, she will still be here.

Two
months later I went to visit her in her sister’s apartment and the first thing
she told me was, If only, jcee, if only I had presented the other proposal, I will still have had my
job, she continues,it has been two months
and I still can't get over the fact that if only I had presented the other proposal
I won't be in this hopeless, jobless, homeless state with no prospect or future
plan. I feel so abandoned by God!

If only is a bad baggage many people carry
around, this baggage is often full of unfinished business, plans that went away
or hurt feelings that have not been healed, the if only baggage gets heavier over time, because it has the ability
to keep growing and growing if you don’t let it go, it has the ability of
holding you back and preventing you from moving forward.It makes you feel hopeless and helpless, I
can say this because I have been in the same situation on several occasion. But
I have learned that mistakes and failures always lead to growth and development.
I refuse to dwell in the past and block new ways into the future. I have learnt
to replace the word if only with
two dynamic, hopeful and optimistic words NEXT
TIME, knowing that if I keep regretting my past it prevents new ideas and
ways into the future.

This
is to encourage and inspire anyone still holding on to if only , Just like Isaiah 43.18 says remember ye not the former things,
neither consider the things of the old behold I will do a new thing. Let
go of the past and embrace the future with all its limitless possibilities. #wegomakeam#bosseswithattitude